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"Those posting the bashing threads seem to be working with an agenda and are posting ANY thread that is the least bit critical. Good to see this pragmatic, realistic view"

I always turn to my garden for the lessons of life. Take my roses for example. It takes time and patience and years of tender care and the proper watering to enjoy big beautiful blooms. If I expected to get these results the first summer, I would be very disappointed. What if I did expect these results, and when I didn't get them ripped them out of the ground and put in another instead? It would be far wiser to prune, feed, mulch, and water the existing plant until I achieved those beautiful big rose blossoms. Once they bloomed I would have to remember to cut off the old blossoms.

And then there are weeds..... the worst of which is the bind weed. It's roots can travel underground 75 feet to spring up near my beautiful roses. It attaches itself to my roses and if I don't get it out of there, will literally choke the rose bush. It requires constant amd vigilant weeding to ensure my roses are bindweed-free. The same weed plant might take cutting off just below the ground, at least 4 times before you kill the plant. If you chop it off wrong, it will branch out into many more weeds going in other directions. It is the most persistant, strongest, devious weed that exists.

To me conservatism is the rose, liberalism is the bindweed. We are the gardeners. We will reap what we sow. If we sow nothing, the ground will be taken over by weeds. So being an inconsistent gardener is better than not planting at all. If we don't tend our garden it will be nothing but weeds. If we expect roses without thorns, roses without hardwork and constant tending we will get weeds. If we expect instant results we will be sorely disappointed, and full of weeds.

The bushbashers expect instant results when it took 30 years to get where we are now. It will take much longer to get back to where we were. It will never happen without hard work and unity.